How long does a bar of wax last you for snowboarding?

I've been waxing my snowboard on the regular this season and I was curious how many waxes you get out of a bar? I'm currently getting around 12 waxes per bar which seems decent (3-5days of riding between waxing, so a bar lasts ~50 days of riding)

That sounds pretty reasonable, but I’ve never paid close attention to that. If you’re dripping the wax on you might get a little more life out of a bar using the crayon method. 

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Will Shaw wrote:

That sounds pretty reasonable, but I’ve never paid close attention to that. If you’re dripping the wax on you might get a little more life out of a bar using the crayon method. 

I've been using a hot iron and scrape every time. I haven't seen good results just rubbing it on cold before.

Curt, you say years, but how often do you wax/ride?

i ride a fair bit (maybe 20 days a season), but i won't wax any of my boards more than twice a season.

Levi X wrote:

I've been using a hot iron and scrape every time. I haven't seen good results just rubbing it on cold before.

You still use the iron. Just touch the wax to the iron and rub the softened part to the base, repeat until you have enough wax on the board and then wax as normal. It seems to save me some wax over dripping it on. 

Here's a related question: is it ok to reuse scraped off wax? I used to do that back when I was really cheap and waxed my board a lot, now I find it usually too much of a pain to recover and store the shavings. But I'm still curious if it affects the performance at all.

probably....but it seems like a recipe for ironing in a ton of dust and dirt from wherever you sweep up your shavings, unless your waxing area is immaculate

Nick Niebuhr wrote:

Here's a related question: is it ok to reuse scraped off wax? I used to do that back when I was really cheap and waxed my board a lot, now I find it usually too much of a pain to recover and store the shavings. But I'm still curious if it affects the performance at all.

If you have a clean wax capture system its totally fine. But if you're letting the wax fall onto the dirty floor then you shouldn't reuse it. I can get 1800g of all temp wax for around 120 which seems to work well enough for everything except warm spring conditions. I dont think I would bother setting up a wax capture system unless I was using some higher end waxes and wanted to make specific blends.